VELYKA NOVOSILKA, UKRAINE - JANUARY 22, 2015: A statue of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin is painted in the colors of Ukraine stands in a central square in Velyka Novosilka, Ukraine. Lenin statues around Ukraine have been torn down and destroyed since the Maidan revolution in a symbolic break with the Russian revolutionary and the Soviet system that tied Ukraine to Russia for decades. CREDIT: Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times